Auspicious Morn (Oliver Holden)

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• (Posted 2015-09-17)  CPDL #36818: 

Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2015-09-17).   Score information: Unknown, 1 page, 49 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Note shapes added (4-shape). The other five stanzas added below.

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Title: Auspicious Morn
Composer: Oliver Holden
Lyricist: John Milton

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: STB

Genre: Sacred, Hymn

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

Published: 1800

Description: First published in Plain Psalmody, 1800, p. 41, for three voices: Treble-Tenor-Bass. Words by John Milton, "altered by the Rev. Mr. Gardner." Full text printed in Francis C. Schaffer's Hymns Suitable for the Devotion of Families and Churches, 1811, in six stanzas. Holden must have had access to the full text, for the title of this composition is from the sixth stanza (see discussion in Music 1998).

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